We are pleased to announce that Robin Whiting, one of our incredible foster and adoptive parents, has been recognized as a 2018 Casey Excellence for Children Award recipient.<\/p>\n
Robin Whiting has adopted five children and fostered more than 30, most of them needing extensive medical care. A trained emergency medical technician, neonatal nurse and the first female firefighter in Brevard County, Fla., she helped launch the county\u2019s Medical Foster Care Program, which helps foster parents care for medically fragile children. While serving as a medical foster care coordinator in 2004, Ms. Whiting met Robie, an 11-month-old boy whom doctors said would never walk, talk or thrive. Ms. Whiting adopted Robie, and today he walks, talks, rides horses, swims, kayaks and is the very picture of happiness. Since welcoming Robie into her family, Ms. Whiting has adopted three of Robie\u2019s biological sisters and a 2-year-old girl with a history of three open-heart surgeries.<\/p>\n